Jan 29, 2021

Twenty years ago San Francisco author Laura Albert began to write novels using the literary persona JT Leroy. JT was a West Virginian transvestite prostitute, who applied his trade in and around Appalachian truck stops. At thirteen he was a junkie and a cutter. By nineteen, he had moved to San Francisco and started...

Jan 22, 2021

Mark Hosler is a founding member of the audio-visual collage group Negativland. Their newest album is called The World Will Decide.

Mixing original materials and original music with things taken from  mass culture and the world around them, Negativland creates surreal rearrangements that say and suggest things that the...

Jan 15, 2021

Pat Loud along with the rest of her family helped invent reality television. The Loud family was the subject of the PBS program An American Family.

Created by producer Craig Gilbert, the show was a sensation when it aired in 1973. Pat and her then-husband, Bill Loud, allowed a camera crew to film their family of five...

Jan 8, 2021

Ricky Powell captured some of the wildest moments in New York fashion, music, and art with his portraits of the downtown New York scene of the 80s and 90s. He befriended the Beastie Boys and joined the band on tour as part of their entourage. In this episode he tells the story of his epic journey to join the Beastie...